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Run a flow/Automate from a button on entity form. A ribbon workbench alternative coming up. A COMMAND BAR DESIGNER FOR MODEL-DRIVEN APPS(Preview)

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  Run a flow/Automate from a button on entity form. A ribbon workbench alternative coming up. A COMMAND BAR DESIGNER FOR MODEL-DRIVEN APPS(Preview) Remember the days if we have to customise the command bar and we have to poke around ribbon workbench created by  Scott Durow  which is part of the  XRM Toolbo x. It has served a greater purpose of customising the command bar. There was not an easy way provided by Microsoft to customise these command buttons. Till now. Microsoft is finally rolling out a new (preview) feature that is part of the configuration tools in Dynamics 365 which will allows us to configure the command bar/ribbon in model-driven apps. It is still in preview but it will get better from here. Let’s dive in to it. One of the common requirements from the entity form is to run some actions related to that record. Such as sending an email or getting information from external system or create some unrelated complex recorders etc. Flow is the easies...